We need a staff suggestion box with ideas for savings.
In addition to the old favourites of pointless and costly awards ceremonies, business bull**** bingo initiatives, etc, I am sure we could all come up with our own local savings.
I'll throw in a starter which would save maybe around £0.5M per annum. Get rid of the Watch Managers at Scottish. They are in theory aligned to a Watch but seem to write their own roster. They don't do nights, they disappear early and come in late. They are often off unit attending one or other of the Baron's junkets. Often you can't find one or they are in a 'meeting' and can't be disturbed, other days there will be 2 or 3 of them skulking around the building doing 'important' stuff. What do they actually do ? No, that's actually a serious question. What do they do for the operation ?
We had 2 Managers ATC before who looked after the non Op stuff for each room. Under them were 10 Supervisors (1 per Watch per Ops Room). Between them they dealt with everything that was needed. Things weren't perfect, but we coped and things usually got done eventually.
Now we have some sort of Business Delivery Manager (ex ATCO), some sort of Operational Manager (ex ATCO), 5 Watch Managers (allegedely ex ATCOs
) and 10 Supervisors. And this is more efficient and focused than the old system how exactly ??
We went through big cuts and efficiency savings in the late 90s and early 2000's. It was painful, but essential and helped us become a better organisation. Why then have people like Baron built our organisation up again in to a top heavy, multi layered management biased company who have lost sight of why we are in business ? If they were real business men, they would have kept us streamlined and efficient. Instead we are just another fat cat 'jobs for the boys' business, wallowing and ineffective in our own mire. It's time for the government to get someone to come along and clear out the dross, for someone to question what everyone adds, and to get rid of the wasteful layers of experts and managers who pontificate and spout mantras like a herd of sheep. The best place to start would be at the top ... and work down.